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emancipationist
[ ih-man-suh-pey-shuh-nist ]
noun
- a person who advocates emancipation, especially an advocate of the freeing of human beings from slavery.
亚洲网紅露点 History and Origins
Origin of emancipationist1
Example Sentences
Meanwhile, a third emancipationist memory saw the war as a battle against slavery and the re-founding of America on a fuller appropriation of its principles.
They wrote that Hopkins himself was an emancipationist and that the documents available 鈥 including tax records 鈥 don鈥檛 support the school鈥檚 claim that he enslaved people.
鈥淚n the end this is a story of how the forces of reconciliation overwhelmed the emancipationist vision in the national culture, how the inexorable drive for reunion both used and trumped race.鈥
Unlike Garrison, who called for the immediate end to slavery, Cash became an emancipationist supporting gradual emancipation.
In Ireland, he calls on the Catholic emancipationist Daniel O鈥機onnell but there also encounters an enchanting African woman, with whom he begins to fall in love.
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